By the numbers
Data
What’s actually in the collection: how long the nights run, how the lengths distribute, who wrote it all. Computed from the full text on this site.
How long is a night?
Total words per night, all 1,000 nights in order. The dashed line is the median.
Heaviest nights
Lightest nights
Length distributions
How the 1,000 stories, 1,000 poems, and 1,000 essays break down by length.
The extremes
Longest and shortest of each kind. Short titles at the bottom are usually placeholder slots awaiting full text — useful for spotting what still needs work.
Authors
Most works
Most words
Kind balance
How this is measured
Words are counted as letter-sequences in the archived text; reading time assumes 200 words per minute. Placeholder slots (a source link with no text yet) contribute only their handful of words, so they cluster at the short end of every chart — that’s intentional, it makes gaps visible.